Sorry so long but here’s my birth story!

So My due date was August 17th

I went to the dr on July 17th and I was 1cm dilated and cervix was still thick and high. I had another dr appointment the next week but I didn’t get checked because I just didn’t want to....hurts like hell. Fast forward to July 30th which was my next appointment she checked me and I was 3cm dilated 🤭🤭🤭 at 37 weeks 3 days! I remember her telling me “well if you don’t go into labor this week then I’ll see you next week” lmao....which is funny. My next appointment was scheduled for August 8th. The next day July 31 at 11:40 am I started to lose my mucus plug.... I lost my mucus plug over the course of 3 days...I thought for sure I would go into labor because on Wednesday August 1st I went to L&D with contraction but only ended up staying like an hour because they started to space out and I was still 3cm dilated 😑😑😑. After that day I stopped having contractions for a couple of days, maybe a couple in a day but nothing serious to even think about. On August 4th, My fiancé and brother in law went to the mall and walked for about 2 hours....nothing happened. A couple days later (August 6th) I started to lose more of my mucus plug but I didn’t think nothing of it because I had already started losing my mucus plug the week prior. Later that night my fiancé and I went for a walk because we started walking outside at night as I got closer to my due date. Well we couldn’t even finish our walk because I started to have contractions and we ended up going in the house. I stayed downstairs leaned over the couch for about 15-20 minutes and then I told my fiancé I was going to take a shower and he ended up falling asleep on the couch. After my shower I went and laid down and the contractions died down enough for me to go to sleep and this is around 11:30pm - 12am. On August 7th At around 2 or 3am I woke up and the contractions were back and I had pressure...down there 🤣🤣.... I was about to call my fiancé but he ended up waking up and I told him I think I needed to go to the hospital. He told me he was going to shower first....which was fine because I wasn’t dying lol. So we arrive at the hospital around 5am, they check me and I’m 4cm Dilated and my contractions are getting more intense but nothing that I couldn’t talk through. They monitor me and they come back to see if anything changed and nothing changed so they decided to keep monitoring me for another hour. When they came back my cervix changed a little bit so they decided to give me another hour and they let me walk. Well after an hour of walking nothing changed 😑😑😑 the nurse told me I was indeed in the early stages of labor but that didn’t make anything better because they still ended up sending me home. Once we left the hospital it was about 9:30 am. I got something to eat, we got home at 10:15 and I took a nap until about 1:20pm. Once I woke up my contractions were stronger. I woke my fiancé up to get dressed for work at 2pm so he could be there at 3pm. He told me if you need to go to the hospital just call him and He’ll leave work. He left for work and around 4pm I got on the phone with my mom and was telling her that the contractions were getting more intense and closer together but I could still talk through them. I told her that I was going to go take a shower to see if that would ease the pain a little since I’m still a little bit normal during contractions. By the time I got off the phone with her at 4:15 my contractions became even worse and I couldn’t talk to through them anymore and I ended up calling my fiancé to come take me to the hospital. So I went to take a shower 😐😐😐...... first off ☝🏾who in the hell said showers help? Cause they don’t.....AT ALL 😑 and second, once I got out they were even worse. By the time I got out the shower and was about to get my clothes on my fiancé was already here 🤪🤪🤪 he was burning up those streets trying to get home 🤣🤣🤣. So I got dressed and before we left I told my daughter I was going to bring her baby brother back to make her stop crying because she wanted to go with me. We left and once we got to the hospital and to triage it was 5:40pm. The nurse checked me and I was 6cm Dilated 🤭🤭🤭 so they told the on call dr and she said they were going to start some IVs and then break my water 💦 I tell my mom so she can be on her way because she live an hour away but I swear she got to the hospital in 30 minutes lol 😂 so anyways this stupid new nurse sticks me twice and then calls another nurse to do my IV 😑😑😑 then they get IV started and I get my epidural. I get pissed because I can feel contractions still on my left side they guy doesn’t fix it because he says it takes time for it to get all over my body and he didn’t want to give me more because he wanted me to be able to push effectively. Everyone that suppose to be in the room arrives (my mom, my sister, baby’s godmom and my fiancé’s mom) before the epidural though lol. The dr comes to break my water....and I’m already at 8cm...after getting the epidural it started to space out my contractions and things started to slow down. So the dr decided to give me pitocin and then she left for a while so I could progress. I get the urge to push so I tell the nurse and I’m at a 9.5.... not even 10 minutes later I tell her I’m fighting to push so she checks me and I’m a 10 but there still some cervix that needs to get out the way before I can push because they didn’t want my cervix to rip. Finally I’m all progressed and then I yell at the nurses cause the urge to push was getting too much for me to deal with and overwhelming and I’m like “WHAT EXACTLY ARE WE WAITING FOR?!?!?” 🤣🤣🤣 and they tell me that we’re waiting on the dr to get back. So finally the dr gets there and she gets suited up and she tells me that on my next contraction she wants me to push as hard as I can. So when the contraction come I push one good time and his head is already out 😲 I push the next time and one of his shoulders pop out and the third one she maneuvers his other shoulder out.....she tells me to breath and give her a half a push. I barely push and my baby comes sliding out and since my epidural wasn’t 100% effective I could feel him coming out 😫😫😫 but I didn’t have any complications or vaginal tears and my son was 100% healthy, so I’m extremely blessed 🙌🏾 Dominic Josiah was born August 7th at 10:53pm weighing 7lbs 7oz and 20in long of pure PERFECTION ❤️😍